If you forget your password for a website and you click [Forgot my password], sometimes the company sends you a new password by email but sometimes it sends you your old password by email. Compare these two cases in terms of vulnerability of the website owner.

What will be an ideal response?


If the site tells you what your password was, that means the site is storing your password rather than just a hash of it. This means that anyone who gains access to the site’s password database has access to all the passwords. If the site sends you a temporary password, there is a good chance it is not storing actual passwords, which is the correct approach from a security perspective.

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A. Assists you in writing and formatting documents, including changing the font (the style of type) or adding color and design elements B. Allows you to create illustrations, diagrams, graphs, and charts that can be projected before a group, printed out for quick reference, or transmitted to remote computers C. Allows you to create a worksheet, composed of a grid of columns and rows, and to type data into the cells, and then enter mathematical formulas into other cells that reference the data D. Allows you to collect and manage data in a uniform format of records and cells E. Allows you to record digital sound files, video files, and animations that can be included in presentations and other documents

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